Psychopathic insanity. They don't have anything we need?? WTF. Tell that to US homebuilders, carmakers .... meanwhile he's shredding anything we DO have here ... and oh yeah, Cheetoface will turn on that big beautiful spigot and let us Californians finally have all the water we need, at long last, whoda thunk it??!!! Not to mention reopening Alcatraz. Yeah, perfect!
He only knows movies, and thinks he's the star in his own. Wait -- that's entertainment, he IS ... and we're all expendable extras.
"The American economy is weakening every day. Soon the shock wave of the supply chain collapse will be fully felt."
I enjoy a little camaraderie with the vendors I patronize at the local Sunday morning farmer's market in Dorset, Vermont. I've been buying my coffee beans from a young mom for the past several years and got a vicarious kick watching her expand the business from farmers market only to a local store presence and now online. She tells me the tariffs have put her in a serious bind though between raising prices which might scare away customers, or not, which means not having enough profit margin to keep the business afloat.
We grow very little coffee in the United States (mainly in Hawaii). It will never be a growth industry domestically, so what is the point of tariffs on countries that export coffee beans? There is no economic benefit or altruistic rationale behind extorting bribes from Juan Valdez and El Exigente. It's pointless of course, unless the point is to fleece every country in the world at the same time.
There is only so much spinning the Fox News spin doctors can do, but in time its audience will twirl itself into the brick wall of reality. Somebody will benefit from tariffs, but it won't be you, or I, or any member of the cult.
The tariffs are nothing more than a tax on Americans, coming straight out of OUR pockets. Our friends around the world, who have supplied us generously with things we don’t and can’t make, or would be too expensive for us to make, have given us a luxurious wonderful American life. They are being punished for their supplying us with this lifestyle. Instead of being thankful for the prosperity they have brought us, we are kicking them in the teeth… AND reaching deep into our own pockets, to pay the would be king. It is upending markets across the world. Importers are fleeing China, and begging other countries to produce for them. We should be forever grateful to China for what they have done for us. Look around, they have supplied us with these luxuries, that will soon be gone from our day to day. It is shameful. This punishment from a single man. A single man. And his paid off brigade. Think of that. Companies both here and abroad are folding. Unable to meet the demands of this 1 single maniac. He wants us on our knees. This is how he wants to gain his control- by buckling us first. Everything that Donald Trump touches dies.
Gar your story is so poignant and dear. The brick wall of reality is coming at us. There is only an aristocratic class that will benefit from any of this shitshow, and even that, will be temporary. We will hurt, but we will not jump off the cliff with the rest of the sheeples.
America may be doomed to self-destruction if we cannot significantly discredit the Fox propaganda network.
Fox is Feel-Good Poison.
Fox sells a powerful feel-good story that is addictive. But it is a divisive disinformation-based story that is poison to our democracy, our security, and our progress.
For decades Fox has promoted a divisive “we good, they bad” narrative with little regard for facts or reality. This has provided their audience with a powerful sense of belonging, purpose, inspiration, and righteous indignation. Their problems and insecurities are due to the other bad team and bad people. You are on the good team fighting the bad team. This powerful tribal story acts like an addictive feel-good drug.
Decades of Fox’s propaganda has fostered a dogmatic belief amongst their audience that Republicans are good and effective, and Democrats are bad and destructive. Fox selects and rationalizes events with the sole purpose of maintaining this narrative. They are expert rationalizers. But rationalization is a lie masquerading as reason. Fox’s smiling confident show people are able to promote this divisive propaganda for great profit because it works as a powerful psychic feel good drug with their audience.
Fox’s most notable accomplishments are
1. Dividing and damaging families and relationships over political beliefs
2. Distracting voters with fear and cultural war issues while Republican policies have increased income inequality, increased the deficit, and shifted trillions in wealth to the top 1%. The get their audience to vote against their economic interests.
3. Trump 1.0, January 6th, and Trump 2.0.
Without Fox’s decades of divisive propaganda and their cynical support of Trump, there is no way an awful human being like Trump could have gotten elected. The reality of Trump is that he is a malignant narcissist who is a serial liar, a sexual predator, a fraudster, a bully, often a business failure, and a criminal. He is a psychopath. His handling of his 2020 election loss also made him a traitor (blatant violation of his oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution). His demonization of his opponents has made him a terrorist (his followers then harass and threaten his opponents who often then need to hire security protection). And his alienating of our allies, undermining of NATO, undermining of Ukraine, undermining of our democracy, undermining of the rule of law, and attraction to dictators have made him a national security threat.
But Fox has created an alternative reality where Trump is a super successful businessman and a selfless patriot and a brilliant hero who knows how to solve our country’s problems and has the courage and strength to fight the bad team and the bad people by doing whatever is necessary to make America great again.
With America’s freedoms of speech and press there has been no way to stop this attractive and addictive poison from spreading and getting more and more dangerous. Our society incentivizes psychopaths, who don’t have the guardrails of principles nor empathy, to gain great wealth, power, and fame in media, politics, and business by cynically manipulating opinion. They use attractive, confident, charismatic people to manipulate people’s fears and insecurities with “we good, they bad” and “it’s not your fault, it’s their fault” narratives based on exaggeration, disinformation, rationalization, lies, and conspiracy theories.
Russia, China, and Iran exacerbate this divisive poison by promoting fear and mistrust on social media with more disinformation, lies, and conspiracy theories.
And we’ve let Fox’s poison play at our military bases all day and night for decades…
So after 30 years of non-stop Fox propaganda playing in military common areas, when Trump orders the military to shoot demonstrators, will they or won't they?
Unfortunately, after living one of the most fortunate lives in the world, that is how I am preparing to die. It seems like our Tiananmen Square may be coming.
Carney said he'd meet Trump on Canada's terms a week ago. Yesterday, Trump reiterated his interest in making Canada a 51st state. This get-together has the potential to be explosive, but I imagine it will be quite cordial. Trump likes to establish foreign policy via Truth Social, not face-to-face. He's chickshit like that.
I predict that Carney is no fool. He will stroke trump's ego and then hand him nothing that does not serve Canada.
I am behind Canada's "Elbows Up" actions and attitudes toward trump's Kingdom of fools, clowns and evil, souless people like Stephen Miller. He looks and talks like a Nazi. Who raised such a vile example of a human?
What hurt twisted this baby into a caricature of a social animal? Is there such a thing as an evil seed? Why are men the source of all inhumanity, hatred, oppression, violence, revenge, destruction of civilization and foolish acts that kill millions of people, polute our world and destroy equality, freedoms, opportunities and fair, peaceful existence?
Is it time for a nation of only females where females allow males to visit when they need them? I'm beginning to think so!
Carney is for freedom with no tariffs and straight forward, no gamesmanship, a true global leader with politeness, something Trump would not know how to handle.
Remember how long we had to listen to the BIDEN CRIME FAMILY??? Hunter Biden taking money,his laptop,his dick? On and on and on for years. Haven’t heard anyone suggesting an investigation into the Trump Crime family with their crypto currency, hotel in Dubai or all the money they’ve taken from the American people by grifting. Where’s the little fat pig from Kentucky now? Why isn’t he doing his job now? Investigate!!!
Carney stood strong. trump said "never say never." I say NEVER. Canada will never be America's 51st state. trump will never be president again. He will never be king. He will never take our democracy from us. He will never prevail in his most evil of endeavors. But he will always be remembered as the worst and most reviled president in history.
I must be witness to these conversations-the nature of this old reporter, or perhaps the ink in my blood is screaming to listen, to read, to hear then see if Freedom wins. Of course my wish is for Carney to stump this collection of Deplorable’s” to oblivion perhaps with the Musk-alibi to Mars.
I fear I’m looking for too much and maybe scapes will suffice. Yet I’m still cheering from my heart of hearts for this Mark from Canada!
I read Marche’s article. It’s beyond comprehension that we’re even talking about Invading and annexing Canada. Trump’s fever dreams are going to destroy us all.
Absolutely agree. I follow Carney all the time cause he's the leader not only Canada needs but the world- a serious experienced economist and humane man who has dealth with major economic crisis. We are all lucky to have him as Prime Minister in Canada.
You can check out Dean Blundell to see what Carney has already been up to in terms of trade and plans.
The US buys oil, natural gas, potash, nickel, cobalt, lithium, uranium from Canada. The list goes on and on. If they didn’t need these products, then they wouldn’t be purchasing them. When it comes to goods and services, the US actually has a surplus. This is just another one of the big lies that Trump perpetuates. To put it in simple terms, our roads and driveways are choked with American made cars and trucks. 🇨🇦🇩🇪 This has to be put on blast in the US!
I hope PM Carney shoves the trade war down Trump’s throat.
I would suggest a different orifice.
Psychopathic insanity. They don't have anything we need?? WTF. Tell that to US homebuilders, carmakers .... meanwhile he's shredding anything we DO have here ... and oh yeah, Cheetoface will turn on that big beautiful spigot and let us Californians finally have all the water we need, at long last, whoda thunk it??!!! Not to mention reopening Alcatraz. Yeah, perfect!
He only knows movies, and thinks he's the star in his own. Wait -- that's entertainment, he IS ... and we're all expendable extras.
"The American economy is weakening every day. Soon the shock wave of the supply chain collapse will be fully felt."
I enjoy a little camaraderie with the vendors I patronize at the local Sunday morning farmer's market in Dorset, Vermont. I've been buying my coffee beans from a young mom for the past several years and got a vicarious kick watching her expand the business from farmers market only to a local store presence and now online. She tells me the tariffs have put her in a serious bind though between raising prices which might scare away customers, or not, which means not having enough profit margin to keep the business afloat.
We grow very little coffee in the United States (mainly in Hawaii). It will never be a growth industry domestically, so what is the point of tariffs on countries that export coffee beans? There is no economic benefit or altruistic rationale behind extorting bribes from Juan Valdez and El Exigente. It's pointless of course, unless the point is to fleece every country in the world at the same time.
There is only so much spinning the Fox News spin doctors can do, but in time its audience will twirl itself into the brick wall of reality. Somebody will benefit from tariffs, but it won't be you, or I, or any member of the cult.
The tariffs are nothing more than a tax on Americans, coming straight out of OUR pockets. Our friends around the world, who have supplied us generously with things we don’t and can’t make, or would be too expensive for us to make, have given us a luxurious wonderful American life. They are being punished for their supplying us with this lifestyle. Instead of being thankful for the prosperity they have brought us, we are kicking them in the teeth… AND reaching deep into our own pockets, to pay the would be king. It is upending markets across the world. Importers are fleeing China, and begging other countries to produce for them. We should be forever grateful to China for what they have done for us. Look around, they have supplied us with these luxuries, that will soon be gone from our day to day. It is shameful. This punishment from a single man. A single man. And his paid off brigade. Think of that. Companies both here and abroad are folding. Unable to meet the demands of this 1 single maniac. He wants us on our knees. This is how he wants to gain his control- by buckling us first. Everything that Donald Trump touches dies.
which, eventually we hope, will be himself.
Gar your story is so poignant and dear. The brick wall of reality is coming at us. There is only an aristocratic class that will benefit from any of this shitshow, and even that, will be temporary. We will hurt, but we will not jump off the cliff with the rest of the sheeples.
America may be doomed to self-destruction if we cannot significantly discredit the Fox propaganda network.
Fox is Feel-Good Poison.
Fox sells a powerful feel-good story that is addictive. But it is a divisive disinformation-based story that is poison to our democracy, our security, and our progress.
Ted Koppel saw this clearly in his interview with Sean Hannity on March 26, 2017. This clip is only 0:47 seconds long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmaKl0Zm2c4
For decades Fox has promoted a divisive “we good, they bad” narrative with little regard for facts or reality. This has provided their audience with a powerful sense of belonging, purpose, inspiration, and righteous indignation. Their problems and insecurities are due to the other bad team and bad people. You are on the good team fighting the bad team. This powerful tribal story acts like an addictive feel-good drug.
Decades of Fox’s propaganda has fostered a dogmatic belief amongst their audience that Republicans are good and effective, and Democrats are bad and destructive. Fox selects and rationalizes events with the sole purpose of maintaining this narrative. They are expert rationalizers. But rationalization is a lie masquerading as reason. Fox’s smiling confident show people are able to promote this divisive propaganda for great profit because it works as a powerful psychic feel good drug with their audience.
Fox’s most notable accomplishments are
1. Dividing and damaging families and relationships over political beliefs
2. Distracting voters with fear and cultural war issues while Republican policies have increased income inequality, increased the deficit, and shifted trillions in wealth to the top 1%. The get their audience to vote against their economic interests.
3. Trump 1.0, January 6th, and Trump 2.0.
Without Fox’s decades of divisive propaganda and their cynical support of Trump, there is no way an awful human being like Trump could have gotten elected. The reality of Trump is that he is a malignant narcissist who is a serial liar, a sexual predator, a fraudster, a bully, often a business failure, and a criminal. He is a psychopath. His handling of his 2020 election loss also made him a traitor (blatant violation of his oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution). His demonization of his opponents has made him a terrorist (his followers then harass and threaten his opponents who often then need to hire security protection). And his alienating of our allies, undermining of NATO, undermining of Ukraine, undermining of our democracy, undermining of the rule of law, and attraction to dictators have made him a national security threat.
But Fox has created an alternative reality where Trump is a super successful businessman and a selfless patriot and a brilliant hero who knows how to solve our country’s problems and has the courage and strength to fight the bad team and the bad people by doing whatever is necessary to make America great again.
With America’s freedoms of speech and press there has been no way to stop this attractive and addictive poison from spreading and getting more and more dangerous. Our society incentivizes psychopaths, who don’t have the guardrails of principles nor empathy, to gain great wealth, power, and fame in media, politics, and business by cynically manipulating opinion. They use attractive, confident, charismatic people to manipulate people’s fears and insecurities with “we good, they bad” and “it’s not your fault, it’s their fault” narratives based on exaggeration, disinformation, rationalization, lies, and conspiracy theories.
Russia, China, and Iran exacerbate this divisive poison by promoting fear and mistrust on social media with more disinformation, lies, and conspiracy theories.
And we’ve let Fox’s poison play at our military bases all day and night for decades…
So after 30 years of non-stop Fox propaganda playing in military common areas, when Trump orders the military to shoot demonstrators, will they or won't they?
Unfortunately, after living one of the most fortunate lives in the world, that is how I am preparing to die. It seems like our Tiananmen Square may be coming.
Thank you for the pointer to Ted Koppel's takedown of Sean Hannity. Excellent.
toxic, deadly entertainment
Fox is well aware that if you control the message, you control the people.
Carney said he'd meet Trump on Canada's terms a week ago. Yesterday, Trump reiterated his interest in making Canada a 51st state. This get-together has the potential to be explosive, but I imagine it will be quite cordial. Trump likes to establish foreign policy via Truth Social, not face-to-face. He's chickshit like that.
I predict that Carney is no fool. He will stroke trump's ego and then hand him nothing that does not serve Canada.
I am behind Canada's "Elbows Up" actions and attitudes toward trump's Kingdom of fools, clowns and evil, souless people like Stephen Miller. He looks and talks like a Nazi. Who raised such a vile example of a human?
What hurt twisted this baby into a caricature of a social animal? Is there such a thing as an evil seed? Why are men the source of all inhumanity, hatred, oppression, violence, revenge, destruction of civilization and foolish acts that kill millions of people, polute our world and destroy equality, freedoms, opportunities and fair, peaceful existence?
Is it time for a nation of only females where females allow males to visit when they need them? I'm beginning to think so!
My prediction was spot on.
I stand with Canada.
Give ‘em hell Mr P.M.
Sometimes a spoiled little child needs a good reprimand. No one in the country wants to do it so………..thanks in advance
Carney is for freedom with no tariffs and straight forward, no gamesmanship, a true global leader with politeness, something Trump would not know how to handle.
The tariffs are double taxation. Congress needs to take the power to tariff away from demented people. What are they waiting for?
I would not have met with Trump. Fuck him and his Organized Crime Family.
Remember how long we had to listen to the BIDEN CRIME FAMILY??? Hunter Biden taking money,his laptop,his dick? On and on and on for years. Haven’t heard anyone suggesting an investigation into the Trump Crime family with their crypto currency, hotel in Dubai or all the money they’ve taken from the American people by grifting. Where’s the little fat pig from Kentucky now? Why isn’t he doing his job now? Investigate!!!
Carney stood strong. trump said "never say never." I say NEVER. Canada will never be America's 51st state. trump will never be president again. He will never be king. He will never take our democracy from us. He will never prevail in his most evil of endeavors. But he will always be remembered as the worst and most reviled president in history.
Hoping to see Carney rope a dope. We're already seeing prescription drug shortages here.
Australia too, voted for a progressive parliament and reelected their Labor PM!
I must be witness to these conversations-the nature of this old reporter, or perhaps the ink in my blood is screaming to listen, to read, to hear then see if Freedom wins. Of course my wish is for Carney to stump this collection of Deplorable’s” to oblivion perhaps with the Musk-alibi to Mars.
I fear I’m looking for too much and maybe scapes will suffice. Yet I’m still cheering from my heart of hearts for this Mark from Canada!
I read Marche’s article. It’s beyond comprehension that we’re even talking about Invading and annexing Canada. Trump’s fever dreams are going to destroy us all.
Absolutely agree. I follow Carney all the time cause he's the leader not only Canada needs but the world- a serious experienced economist and humane man who has dealth with major economic crisis. We are all lucky to have him as Prime Minister in Canada.
You can check out Dean Blundell to see what Carney has already been up to in terms of trade and plans.
The US buys oil, natural gas, potash, nickel, cobalt, lithium, uranium from Canada. The list goes on and on. If they didn’t need these products, then they wouldn’t be purchasing them. When it comes to goods and services, the US actually has a surplus. This is just another one of the big lies that Trump perpetuates. To put it in simple terms, our roads and driveways are choked with American made cars and trucks. 🇨🇦🇩🇪 This has to be put on blast in the US!
Wake up every day more embarrassed.